Change 20153 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/07/11 10:50:52
more perldelta.
Affected files ...
... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#40 edit
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==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perldelta.pod#40 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perldelta.pod
--- perl/pod/perldelta.pod#39~20151~ Fri Jul 11 01:35:08 2003
+++ perl/pod/perldelta.pod Fri Jul 11 03:50:52 2003
@@ -616,6 +616,11 @@
Something modified the values being iterated over. This is not good.
+=head2 New "v-strings are deprecated"
+
+The marginal benefits of v-strings were greatly outweighed by the
+potential for Surprise and Confusion.
+
=head1 Changed Internals
These news matter to you only if you either write XS code or like to
@@ -688,7 +693,7 @@
IBM z/OS and other EBCDIC platforms continue to be problematic
regarding Unicode support.
-=head2 (FreeBSD)
+=head2 FreeBSD: malloc dilemma
The choice of malloc (the C-level memory management interface)
when building Perl is problematic in FreeBSD.
@@ -710,7 +715,7 @@
A decision was made to stick with the system malloc, regardless
of the performance problems.
-=head2 (HP-UX) HP cc warnings about sendfile
+=head2 HP-UX: HP cc warnings about sendfile
With certain HP C compiler releases (e.g. B.11.11.02) you will
get many warnings like this:
@@ -719,13 +724,13 @@
This warning, however, is not serious and can be ignored.
-=head2 (Tru64) No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
+=head2 Tru64: No threaded builds with GNU cc (gcc)
In the latest Tru64 releases (e.g. v5.1B) the gcc (3.3) cannot be
used to compile a threaded Perl (-Duseithreads) because the system
<pthread.h> file doesn't know about gcc.
-=head2 (Win32) sysopen, sysread, syswrite
+=head2 Win32: sysopen, sysread, syswrite
As of the 5.8.0 release, sysopen()/sysread()/syswrite() do not behave
like they used to in 5.6.1 and earlier with respect to "text" mode.
End of Patch.
